Problematizovanje zavichajnosti i tuzhinstva u autoisloivednoi proyi Miroslava Danojica
Problematisation of Indigenisation and Alienationin the Self-Confession Prose of Milovan Danojlic

Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on the problem of self-determination in the self-confession, lyrical prose of modern Serbian writer, Milovan Danojlic. In this autofiction the narrator has a problem with a sense of belonging, as he cannot fully accept any environment, either the indigenous one, or rural, metropolitan, or foreign, as his own. Feeling somewhat alien everywhere, even in his own family, he is confronted with the paradox of self-being and alienation, seeing his own existence as a borderline between two spaces and value systems ??according to which he is trying to (critically) identify himself. In time, being on the borderline becomes the essence of his self-being, a special form of freedom. The most picturesque metaphor of self-perception is the identification with a cactus (being unaffiliated, drawing strength from oneself), reflecting a sense of personal, national, or broadly speaking, Slavic identity. The paradox of the confessional position is reflected in the fact that the farther away from his homeland he is, the closer to it he feels, appropriating it ever more. Constructing the homeland within himself while being physically detached from it is seen as the ultimate moment of identification – the fulcrum.

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